Hi Reader!

Everyone enters a project or collaboration hoping that it’ll be successful. Everyone is excited, and no one goes into it expecting to run into problems.

But the beginning of the project, when everyone is friends and in a collaborative mood, is the perfect time to lay some ground rules about how you can gracefully walk away if the project doesn’t work as planned.

Because once things start to go wrong, it’s harder to agree on what this process looks like.

While it’s a downer to talk about the relationship ending, right when you are embarking on it, the best time to figure out how to make a graceful exit is at the beginning, when you are on great terms, not the end.

Contracts get a bad rap, but they are a great excuse to figure out how to end a relationship (or, in legalese, terminate the contract.

You can use it to spell out:

• What the process looks like if one of you is acting badly vs. if it’s just not working for one of you
• How many days’ notice do you need to give
• How do you transition out of the project
• What payments, if any, are refundable?
• What responsibilities you continue to have to the other side after the contract ends

👉 Your action item: Look at your contract to make sure it spells out the process to exit gracefully if things aren’t working.

I'll be sitting at my computer until about 9:30 AM Pacific and I'd love to know if you run into any roadblocks in completing this week's task. (And if you are reading this after that, please reply! I'll get back to you ASAP.)

Chat soon,

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